Asymmetries in Chinese cities’ knowledge collaborations A new paper that examines how cities function as providers or receivers of innovative knowledge: Yang, Y., Demuynck, W. and Derudder, B. (2026) 'Asymmetries in Chinese cities' knowledge collaborati...

Asymmetries in Chinese cities’ knowledge collaborations gawc.lboro.ac.uk/asymmetries-...

Boston and the Making of a Global City, event pictures with speakers and audience

Event recap: Boston and the Making of a Global City, with Jim O'Connell, Loretta Lees and Michael Hoyler

www.bu.edu/ioc/2026/04/...

Becoming Metropolitan | Urban Transformation of 19th Century Newcastle Using a unique data-rich study of Newcastle’s becoming a metropolitan city region in the nineteenth century, this book explores a new understanding of how

Looking forward to this new city study, authored by the incredible Peter Taylor and a terrific group of scholars. #gawc #newcastle #globalcities #urbanhistory

Flyer with USF Logo for the 2026 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS of the International Fellowships on a Photo by Zeke Tucker

Flyer with USF Logo for the 2026 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS of the International Fellowships, on a blue background, with the following details: Open to early-to-mid-career urban scholars from the Global South; PhD must have been awarded within the last 10 years; Requires a Mentor at your chosen host university; deadline 6 July 2026 at 23:59 UTC +0; Apply online; This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.

📢 2026 USF International Fellowships - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.

Deadline: 6 July 2026
Read more & apply : https://ow.ly/ezMb50YILbw

Teaching financial and regional geographies Two new papers that engage with the pedagogy of teaching financial and regional geographies. The first, by Michiel van Meeteren, takes the example of two modules developed as part of the MSc Inter...

Two new papers that engage with the pedagogy of teaching financial and regional geographies, including a discussion of modules developed as part of the MSc International and Financial Political Relations @lborogeog.bsky.social

gawc.lboro.ac.uk/teaching-fin...

IFPR: www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon - discuss their new book Fintech Capital book | Liz Mcfall This Friday at 10.30 BST 🥁 Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon will be at Edinburgh Futures Institute to talk about their new book https://lnkd.in/ek6i8ERY . In person spaces are strictly limited but you ...

This Friday at 10.30 BST 🥁 Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon will be at Edinburgh Futures Institute to talk about their new book lnkd.in/ek6i8ERY . In person spaces are strictly limited but you can join online: www.linkedin.com/posts/liz-mc...

Technological diversification in Chinese urban regions Two new papers analysing different aspects of technological diversification and polycentricity in Chinese urban regions: Lu, J., Yang, Y., Cao, Z. and Derudder, B. (2026) 'Polycentricity and technological diversification: divergent pathways across Chinese urban regions', Regional Studies, 60 (1).

Technological diversification in Chinese urban regions gawc.lboro.ac.uk/technologica...

We are hiring - a two-year LSE Fellow in Urban Geography and Planning @lsegeography.bsky.social. The full details can be found here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Application closing date: 26th April.

Boston and the Making of a Global City Join the Boston University Initiative on Cities and the City Planning & Urban Affairs (CPUA) at BU Metropolitan College for a discussion with BU Urbanist and Lecturer at the Boston University City Pla...

Boston and the Making of a Global City - book discussion with author Jim O'Connell and @lborogeog.bsky.social's Michael Hoyler @bostonu.bsky.social's Initiative on Cities.

gawc.lboro.ac.uk/boston-and-t...

New book: Regions in Evolution Throughout the twentieth century, planning and planners were central to our understanding of cities and regions. Today, however, planning is facing powerful challenges – professionally, intellectually...

Published today: Regions in Evolution: A History of Regional Planning by Daniel Galland, @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social and @drjwharrison.bsky.social

@routledgebooks.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social

gawc.lboro.ac.uk/new-book-reg...

Intercity coopetition and regional innovation A new paper on the role of urban polycentricity in regional innovation: Yang, Y., Lu, J. and Derudder, B. (2026) 'Intercity coopetition and regional innovation: The role of urban polycentricity', E...

Intercity coopetition and regional innovation: The role of urban polycentricity - new paper by Yuting Yang, Jiayi Lu and @bdrudder.bsky.social in @economyandspace.bsky.social gawc.lboro.ac.uk/intercity-co...

Release: GaWC Global Media Cities 2025 We have today released our latest ranking of Global Media Cities. The reported city positions in 2025 are based on an analysis of the top 100 leading global media firms across 790 cities, the most ext...

We have today released our latest ranking of Global Media Cities. The city positions in 2025 are based on an analysis of the top 100 leading global media firms across 790 cities, the most extensive analysis of global media firms ever undertaken by GaWC researchers.

gawc.lboro.ac.uk/release-gawc...

Flyer with USF logo for the Urban Urgencies Call for Applications on a picture of a COP26 protest via flickr by Midia NINJA and the text "The Urban Studies Foundation is launching a major new grant to support rapid-response collaborative research on the world’s most pressing urban challenges. Up to £35,000 per project Open to researchers globally Requires partnership with at least one non-academic organisation 23 March 2026 at 23:59 UTC +0 Apply online"

Flyer with USF logo for the Urban Urgencies Call for Applications on a picture of a COP26 protest via flickr by Midia NINJA and the text "The Urban Studies Foundation is launching a major new grant to support rapid-response collaborative research on the world’s most pressing urban challenges. Up to £35,000 per project Open to researchers globally Requires partnership with at least one non-academic organisation 23 March 2026 at 23:59 UTC +0 Apply online"

⏰ Urban Urgencies call now open!

🗓️ Deadline: 23 March 2026 (23:59 UTC)

This new grant supports collaborative research on pressing urban challenges worldwide, addressing issues such as the climate crisis, housing, health, governance, conflict, AI, and more.

🔗 Learn more & apply: ow.ly/FUIn50XGtgz

Excellent to see our @gawc.bsky.social research network feature in Guangzhou's Urban Planning Exhibition. ⬇️

GaWC was founded @lborogeog.bsky.social in 1998. Now with major nodes @lborouniversity.bsky.social and KU Leuven, the network continues to advance global urban research.

🏙️ gawc.lboro.ac.uk

Gauteng City-Region Observatory This session explores the impact of storytelling and community experiences on shaping our understanding of places. By bringing people together through dialogue, collaboration, and shared knowledge,...

Storytelling & Community | Webinar by Gauteng City-Region Observatory and @lborouniversity.bsky.social Town Observatory www.facebook.com/100064858983...

Rethinking the urban South? Centering “unprecedented” risk and repair As the climate crisis intensifies, those least responsible for its root causes are disproportionately affected by disaster, where loss and damage are the presumptive endpoints of unmitigated ecolog...

Dr Beki McElvain, Lecturer in Human Geography @lborogeog.bsky.social, has joined the Editorial Board of Urban Geography. 👏

Beki also recently published in the journal, together with @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social, on 'Rethinking the urban South?'. Read open access here: doi.org/10.1080/0272...

GaWC features in Guangzhou's Urban Planning Exhibition The Urban Planning Exhibition in Guangzhou features the city's position in the latest The World According to GaWC (2024) classification of 'world cities'. Spotted by GaWC researcher Professor John Har...

GaWC features in Guangzhou's Urban Planning Exhibition gawc.lboro.ac.uk/gawc-feature...

Our home department, @lborogeog.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social, is both on this platform and on LinkedIn, highly recommended! 🌍

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library Scientific excellence is clustering ever more tightly in a few ‘superstar’ cities. Four—New York, Boston, London and the San Francisco Bay Area—now host 12% of the world's top scientists. In contrast....

Did you know 12% of the world’s top #researchers cluster in just four #cities? In our brand new paper (with Xiang & @neillee.bsky.social) in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, the “flat world” is a gated archipelago. The #GlobalSouth remains excluded.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...

The failure of the #Netherlands to disperse jobs beyond the #Randstad was more sociological than economic.
Resistance —as @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social & @martijnjsmit.bsky.social argue in @tesg-journal.bsky.social— came from civil servant’s deep-seated space preferences.
doi.org/10.1111/tesg...

Professor Joanna Bullard (1969-2025) | Obituary It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Joanna Elizabeth Bullard, Professor of Physical Geography at Loughborough University.

We will be celebrating Jo Bullard's life on Thursday 4th December, from 2.30pm at Loughborough University.

Please register here if you would like to attend: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

The @rgsibg.bsky.social have published an obituary of Jo:
www.rgs.org/about-us/our...

Professor Joanna Bullard (1969-2025) We are incredibly sad to share news of the recent passing of Joanna Bullard, Professor of Physical Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment, School of Social Sciences and Humanities at...

Incredibly sad news from our Geography community at Loughborough www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/geo...

Come and join us at Loughborough! Deadline approaching fast: Sunday 9 November. Alignment with one of the focus areas is critical ⬇️

Geography seminar series, Join us Wednesday 12th November 1:00 PM in EHB205 for Constructing Just Mobility Futures: Mobility is a key determinant of urban wellbeing. It shapes access to services, opportunities, social safety, care, and community. Mobility today is misaligned with needs of society, worsening inequalities in access and increasing reliance on car infrastructure. In a period of increasing inequality and ageing, as service geographies reorganise, care roles evolve, and environmental pollution worsens, future mobility needs will undergo massive changes. The prevailing “predict-and-provide” paradigm in transit planning is based on past demand patterns and is too narrow. Datasets that quantify travel demand (e.g., Origin-Destination (OD) matrices, travel demand survey, travel diaries) have long mirrored the journeys of a stereotypical male commuter, reinforcing only priorities of formal economic work. Treating mobility as aggregate behaviour then erases barriers faced by many others. As a result, people whose needs are poorly reflected, such as lower income women making chained care trips, older adults seeking community services, those with disabilities, children, and night-time workers on off-peak schedules, are systematically underserved and socially excluded. Optimising solely for economic efficiency deepens inequality and car-dependence, which is environmentally unsustainable and fiscally costly, and happening everywhere in the UK. A futures-oriented approach is therefore required – one that begins from lived constraints and explicit social objectives, and tests alternative pathways under physical and environmental limits. In this talk, I will present some recent work from The Netherlands and South Africa exploring the inequalities that people face in movement, the data ecosystems that allow us to understand them, and participatory methods of constructing just mobility futures for all.

📢 Next week: A talk on 'Constructing Just Mobility Futures' by our own @trivikrama.bsky.social! Join us in person next Wednesday, 12th November @1:00 PM for what is sure to be an excellent conversation.

Another useful list of global urban researchers and institutions. Check it out!

Join your team. Bring your team. Build your team. Loughborough University is seeking top research talent from around the world to build, join and shape the teams facing down the most pressing challenges of our time.

We are recruiting at Loughborough University: Join us as Lecturer, SL, Reader or Professor in one of three strategic areas:

⚙️ Digital engineering and transformation
🔋 Renewable energy, hydrogen research, and infrastructure
♻️ Sustainability and circular economy

www.lboro.ac.uk/join-us/acad...

GaWC Visualisations One way of interpreting the GaWC project is that it is putting geography into globalisation. Globalisation is much more than a 'new' scale of activities, it is importantly a new spatial patterning of ...

Visualising globalised urbanisation on #worldcitiesday: Explore how cities operate within contemporary globalisation at gawc.lboro.ac.uk/gawc-worlds/...

Our home @lborogeog.bsky.social is now on Bluesky too - and featuring an exciting list of speakers in this autumn's seminar series ⬇️

Conceptualising interplaces A new typology of ‘interplaces’ that recognises their diversity and shows why they matter for how metropolitan regions work: Demuynck, W., Derudder, B., Meijers, E. and van Meeteren, M. (2025) 'Bet...

Conceptualising interplaces gawc.lboro.ac.uk/conceptualis...